Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

لَاحَ, aor. يَلُوحُ, inf. n. لَوْحٌ, It (a thing) shone; gleamed; glistened. (Ṣ.)

لَاحَ, (aor. يَلُوحُ, inf. n. لَوْحٌ and لُؤُوحٌ and لَوَحَانٌ; TA;) andالاح↓; It (lightning) flashed slightly, not extending sideways in the adjacent tracts of cloud: (Ṣ, Ḳ:) orالاح↓ signifies it lighted up what surrounded it. (TA.)

لَاحَ, (Ṣ, Mṣb,) aor. يَلُوحُ; (Mṣb;) inf. n. [لَوْحٌ and] لِيَاحٌ; (IAth;) It appeared: (IAth, Mṣb:) it (a star) appeared, (Ṣ, Mṣb,) as alsoالاح↓, (Ṣ, Ḳ,) [it loomed,] and shone, gleamed, or glistened; (TA;) as alsoالاح↓: (Mṣb, TA:) ISk says, لَاحَ سُهَيْل Canopus appeared; (Ṣ;) andالاح↓ it shone and glistened. (Ṣ, Ḳ.)

لاح, andالاح↓, He (a man) came forth and became apparent. (AʼObeyd.)

لَاحَ لِى أَمْرُكَ, andتلوّح↓, ‡ Thine affair became apparent and manifest to me. (A.)

لَاحَ الشَّيْبُ فِى رَأْسِهِ Hoariness appeared upon his head. (TA.)

لَاحَهُ, aor. يَلُوحُ, He saw him, or it. (Ḳ.)

لَاحَ إِلَى كَذَا, aor. يَلُوحُ, He looked at, or towards, such a thing; as a distant fire. (L.)

لَاحَهُ بِبَصَرِهِ, aor. يَلُوحُ, inf. n. لَوْحَةٌ, [so in the L,] He saw him, or it, and then he or it became concealed from him. (L.)

See 4.

لَاحَ, (Ṣ,) aor. يَلُوحُ, (TA,) inf. n. لَوْحٌ (Ṣ, Ḳ,) and لُوحٌ (Ḳ) and لُوَاحٌ (Ṣ, Ḳ) and لُؤُوحٌ and لَوَحَانٌ; (Ḳ;) andالتاح↓; (Ṣ, Ḳ;) He thirsted: (Ṣ, Ḳ;) or he thirsted in the slightest degree: (TA:) or he thirsted quickly. (Lḥ.)

لَاحَهُ, (aor. يَلُوحُ, inf. n. لَوْحٌ, TA,) It (thirst, Ḳ, or travel, Ṣ, Ḳ, and cold, and disease or illness, and grief, TA,) altered him, (Ṣ, Ḳ,) and made him lean, lank, light of flesh, slender, or lank in the belly; (TA;) as alsoلوّحهُ↓, (Ḳ,) inf. n. تَلْوِيحٌ: or the latter signifies it (the heat of fire or of the sun) altered the colour of his skin: (TA:) or both verbs signify it parched, scorched, or burned, and blackened, his skin. (Zj.) لَوَّحَتْهُ↓ الشَّمْسُ The sun altered him, and scorched, i. e. slightly burned, and changed the colour of, his face; (Ṣ;) and in like manner fire, and the hot wind called سَمُوم; as also لَاحَتْهُ. (A.)

لوّح, (inf. n. تَلْوِيحٌ, TA,) He heated (Ṣ, Ḳ) a thing with fire. (Ṣ; see MA, and see 1.)

لوّحهُ الشَّيْبُ Hoariness altered him; (TA;) rendered him white. (Ḳ, TA.)

See 1, and 4.

See 1 throughout the first half.

الاح مِنَ الشَّىْءِ, (inf. n. الاحة, TA,) ‡ He (a man) was cautious and fearful of the thing. (Ṣ, Ḳ.*)

الاح بِثَوْبِهِ, (L,) andلوّح↓ به, (Lḥ, Ṣ, L,) andلاح↓ به, (L,) ‡ He made a sign with his garment, (Ṣ, L,) from a distant place, taking the end of it in his hand, and waving it about, to make it seen by some one whom he desired to see it. (L.) الاح بِسَيْفِهِ; (Ṣ, Ḳ;) andلوّح↓ به, (Ḳ,) inf. n. تَلْوِيحٌ; (TA:) ‡ He made a sign with his sword, (Ṣ, Ḳ,) and waved it, or moved it about, [for the purpose above mentioned]. (TA.)

لوّح لِلْكَلْبِ بِرَغِيفٍ فَتَبِعَهُ ‡ He made a sign to the dog with a cake of bread, and he followed him. (A.)

الاح بِحَقِّى He went away with, or took away, that which belonged to me. (ISk, Ṣ.)

الاحهُ, (inf. n. إِلَاحَةٌ, TA,) He destroyed him or it. (Ṣ, Ḳ.)

استلاح He sought, tried, or endeavoured, to see, syn. تَبَصَّرَ, (Ḳ,) فِى الأَمْرِ into the affair, or thing. (TA.)

لَوْحٌ A look; syn. نَظْرَةٌ; [or rather a glance, or light or quick look;] like لَمْحَةٌ. (Ḳ.)

See لُوحٌ

Any broad, or wide, and thin, thing, such as a board or plank or the like, of wood or of bone: (T, M, Mṣb, Ḳ:) pl. أَلْوَاحٌ, and pl. pl. أَلَاوِيحُ. (Ḳ.) A word of this kind has not a pl. of the measure أَفْعُلٌ, because ḍammeh to the و is disliked. (Sb.)

أَلْوَاحٌ i. q. لَوَائِحُ, q. v.

The scapula or shoulder-blade, (T, Ṣ, Mṣb, Ḳ,) when it is written upon, or inscribed. (T, Mṣb, Ḳ.)

Any wide bone: (Ṣ, Mṣb:) or any bone of the body, except the bones called قَصَب of the arms and legs. (Mṣb.) See also مِلْوَاحٌ.

لَمْ يَبْقَ مِنْهُ إِلَّا الالواح ‡ There remained of him nothing but the wide bones. Said of one that is lean, or emaciated. (A.)

لَوْحُ الكَتِفِ The smooth part of the shoulder-blade, where its projecting part (عَيْر [so I read for غير, in the L]) terminates, in the upper portion. (L.)

لَوْحٌ That [meaning a tablet] upon which one writes. (Ṣ.)

كَتَبْنَا لَهُ فِى الأَلْوَاحِ [We wrote for him upon the tablets, or tables]. (Ḳur vii. 142.) They are said to have been two tablets; but it is allowable to call two tablets الواح. (Zj.)

اللَّوْحُ المَحْفُوظُ, mentioned in the Ḳur, [chap. lxxxv. last verse, The Preserved, or Guarded, Tablet, whereon are said to be inscribed all the divine decrees;] ‡ the depository of the decrees, or willed events, ordained by God: (TA:) or i. q. أُمُّ الكِتَابِ: or a light which appears to the angels, showing to them the things which they are commanded to do, and which they obey. (Mṣb.)

لُوحٌ (Ṣ, Ḳ) andلَوْحٌ↓, (Lḥ, Ḳ,) but the former is of higher authority, (Ḳ,) and the latter is mentioned by none but Lḥ, (TA,) The air, or atmosphere, (Ṣ, Ḳ,) between heaven and earth: (Ṣ:) the air next to the higher part, or to the clouds, of the sky; syn. سُكَاك: this is its meaning in the phrase لَا أَفْعَلُ ذٰلِكَ وَلَوْ نَزَوْتَ فِى اللُّوحِ [I will not do that even if thou leap into the air next to the higher part, or to the clouds, of the sky]. (Ṣ.)

إِبِلٌ لَوْحَى Thirsty camels. (Ṣ, Ḳ.)

شَىْءٌ لِيَاحٌ, (Ṣ, Ḳ,) andلَيَاحٌ↓, (Ḳ,) A white thing. (Ṣ.) The و is changed into ى because of the kesreh before it. (Fr, Ṣ.) لَيَاحٌ is extr.; for there is no reason for the change of the و therein into ى, unless for alleviation of the sound. (L.)

Also لِيَاحٌ andلَيَاحٌ↓ Of a shining, or glistening, white hue. (L.)

أَبْيَضُ لِيَاحٌ, andلَيَاحٌ↓, ‡ Intensely white. (Ḳ, TA.)

Also لِيَاحٌ (Ṣ, Ḳ) andلَيَاحٌ↓ (Ḳ) The wild bull: (Ṣ, Ḳ:) so called because of his whiteness. (Ṣ.)

Also both words, The daybreak, or dawn: (Ḳ:) so called for the same reason. (TA.)

لَقِيتُهُ بِلِيَاحٍ I met him at the period of the afternoon called العَصْر, when the sun was white. (L.)

لَوَّاحَةٌ لِلْبَشَرِ, [Ḳur, lxxiv. 29, referring to سَقَرُ,] Burning the [scarf-] skin so as to blacken it. (Zj.)

لَوَائِحُ شَىْءٍ [pl. of لَائِحَةٌ] The parts of a thing that are apparent, and that show the signs thereof. (TA.) لَوَائِحُ andأَلْوَاحٌ↓ The external parts of a thing. (A.) لَوَاحِى الشَّيْبِ The apparent signs of hoariness, occurs in a verse of Khufáf Ibn-Nudbeh, for لَوَائِح الشيب. (TA.)

أَلْوَاحُ↓ السِّلَاحِ Shining, gleaming, or glistening, weapons; such as the sword, (Ṣ, Ḳ,) end the like, (Ḳ,) and the spear-head; (Ṣ;) generally meaning swords, because of their whiteness: (ISd:) or, as some say, the cases, or receptacles, in which are the swords together with their scabbards and suspensory belts or strings, because made of boards. (IB.) ʼAmr Ibn-Aḥmar El-Báhilee says,

* تُمْسِى كَأَلْوَاحِ السِّلَاحِ وَتُضْ *

* حِى كَٱلْمَهَاةِ صَبِيحَةَ القَطْرِ *

[In the evening she is like shining weapons, (so accord. to the Ṣ.) or like sword-cases, (accord. to IB,) and in the early part of the day, after sunrise, she is like the wild cow on the morning of, or after, rain]. IB says, that the poet means, in the evening she is lean, or slender, like a sword-case; but in the morning, like a wild cow, &c. (L.)

مِلْوَاحٌ Large in the أَلْوَاح, (Ḳ,) meaning [the shoulder-blades, or] any of the wide bones of the body: applied to a camel and to a man: (TA:) or having excellent and large الواح: (Sh, AHeyth:) and الواح is said to mean the ذِرَاعَانِ [or two radii], the سَاقَانِ [or two tibiæ], and the عَضُدَانِ [or two humeri, or upper bones of the arms]. (TA.)

Tall. (Ḳ.)

Lean, lank, or light of flesh; or slender, or lank in the belly: (Ḳ:) applied alike to a man and a woman: also, a beast of carriage that becomes so quickly: (TA:) also, a woman that quickly becomes lean, or emaciated: (Ḳ:) pl. مَلَاوِيحُ. (TA.)

مِلْوَاحٌ A beast (Ṣ) that quickly becomes thirsty; (Ṣ, Ḳ;) as alsoمِلْوَحٌ↓ (Ḳ) and مِلْيَاحٌ; (IAạr, Ḳ;) the last extr., as though the و were changed into ى because of the kesreh which is near before it, and as though they had imagined a kesreh to the ل. (ISd.)

رِيحٌ مِلْوَاحٌ [A very thirsty wind]. (TA, voce نَكْبَآءُ.)

[A kind of decoy-bird. See رَامِقٌ.]

مُلَوَّحٌ Altered by fire, or by the sun, or by travel, [&c.]: an arrow, before it is furnished with feathers and a head, altered by fire; and in like manner the iron head of an arrow or of a spear, or the like: (TA:) also مُلْتَاحٌ↓ altered (Ḳ) by the sun, or by travel, &c. (TA.)